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Muslim women shouldn't wear veils, integration expert says


RT
Mon, 05 Dec 2016 17:20 UTC
muslim women
© Luke MacGregor/Reuters
The British government's racial integration expert believes Muslim women wearing veils cannot be police officers or midwives because people "want to see their faces."

Dame Louise Casey, who on Monday presented her report on social integration in Britain, told the BBC Radio 4 Today program that although she does not want to force women to remove their veils, public bodies need to use "common sense" when recruiting.

Her year-long study, which took statements from more than 800 people, researched a series of minority groups in Britain, focusing specifically on Muslim communities. It found "high levels of social and economic isolation in some places, and cultural and religious practices in communities that are not only holding some of our citizens back, but run contrary to British values and sometimes our laws." The research was criticized by Muslim leaders, who dubbed it "inflammatory, divisive, [and] pandering to the agenda of the far right."

Dame Louise argued the problem lies with politicians who are more willing to ignore "inconvenient truths" than address issues of segregation and misogyny. "Inequality within certain communities in these highly-segregated areas is getting worse, not better," she told the BBC. "I will die in the ditch for people in this country to wear whatever they want frankly, in their own homes and in their own livelihood. Do I think that police officers or midwives should be fully veiled? No I don't. I want to see their faces, most of us do."
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Dumpster divers arrested for giving perfectly good food to charity

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 20:31 UTC
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According to the USDA, Americans waste between 30 and 40 percent of their food supply, which translates into 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food per year, and waste continues to rise. Corporate retail food and restaurants account for a great deal of waste, throwing out arbitrarily expired food products, and dishes left unsold. But even household food waste accounts for a whopping 120 pounds per month, per family of four, according to a CBS News report. Enter Anthony Moyer and Samuel Troyer, residents of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, who knew about the wasteful habits of such corporate entities, and decided to do something about it.

The brothers-in-law thought it would be a good idea to see what they could salvage from local food markets, pharmacies, and other retail establishments. They would wait until about 10 pm, and then head off to the market, although they weren't there to make purchases. Instead, the two went dumpster diving for the valuable goods, which were sealed and unopened, simply discarded and headed for the local trash dump.

As Penn Live reports, At first, they'd bring their haul home and share it with their family and friends. When it got to be too much, the two men started donating whatever they had left to charitable organizations around central Pennsylvania.

Everything seemed to be going fine until the authorities showed up and arrested the dynamic duo for trespassing.

Comment: Food waste can be prevented by not adhering to misleading expiration dates. The US should take a tip from France and make stores sign a donation deal with charities.

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Complete lack of awareness: Cops issue multiple parking tickets to a car with a dead body inside

Jake Anderson
The Anti Media
Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:50 UTC
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In a crude indictment of both human inattentiveness and local parking enforcement, it appears that over the course of four days, multiple parking citations were issued to a car that contained a dead man.

The SunSentinel reported that Jacob Morpeau, 62, of Miami, was found by police, his body slumped under the steering wheel. County resident Carolyn White, who discovered the body inside an Isuzu Axiom SUV, said the man held a credit card in his hand.

The Broward County Medical Examiner's office stated Morpeau, an immigrant from Haiti, died from natural causes complicated by hypertensive cardiovascular disease. No one knows how precisely how long his body had been inside the Isuzu. What's also unknown is how many of the tickets were written with Morpeau inside the vehicle.

What we do know is that, according to the SunSentinel:

"Two of the tickets were written within three minutes, and just six hours before White saw Morpeau's body inside the SUV. The same parking officer cited the Isuzu for two expired meters, perhaps because the SUV's front end was in part of the next parking space."
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Health

Egypt busts huge organ trafficking ring, arrests 45, seizes $mlns

Reuters
Yahoo! News
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 19:39 UTC
Imad Eddin Ahmed Radi
Egypt's Minister of Health and Population Dr. Imad Eddin Ahmed Radi
Egypt has uncovered a network accused of illicit international trafficking in human organs, arresting 45 people and recovering millions of dollars in a dawn raid on Tuesday, the health ministry said.

Among those held were doctors, nurses, middlemen and organ-buyers, involved in what the ministry described as the largest organ-trafficking network exposed in Egypt to date.

"The accused who were arrested exploited the economic situation of some Egyptians and the suffering of some patients and their need for treatment to take large financial sums from them, thus breaking the law," the ministry said in a statement.

It said the investigation, which involved the Health Ministry and Administrative Control Authority, a powerful anti-corruption body, focused on a group of private hospitals and health centres, both licensed and unlicensed, where transplants and organ harvesting took place.
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Black Magic

Convicted pedophile beaten to death by parents of his victims


RT
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:49 UTC
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© Reuters
An Argentinian music teacher who was convicted of molesting children has died after being severely beaten while he was performing at a concert in a cathedral close to Buenos Aires. Parents of his victims were allegedly responsible for the killing.

Marcelo Fabian Pecollo, who was handed a 30-year prison sentence in 2010 for molesting five preschool children, was both a music teacher and trumpeter with the Moron city orchestra. He was released from prison after only four years following a sentence reduction.

The attack at the cathedral happened on October 30 in the Moron suburb while Pecollo was performing, according to AFP. A group of parents interrupted the show shouting: "There is a pedophile and a rapist in the church and he is playing in this orchestra."
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Veterans group blasts Trump's selection of Ben Carson for Housing Secretary as "insulting to veterans"


Sputnik
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 18:12 UTC
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President-elect Donald Trump's choice of neurosurgeon Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is insulting to veterans, the group VoteVets said in a press release.

Earlier on Monday, Trump officially named Carson as his nominee for HUD Secretary.

"Hundreds of thousands of veterans live in HUD-assisted housing," the release stated on Monday. "To make their wellbeing subject to the gross unpreparedness of Ben Carson is a complete insult."

The release noted that Carson's own spokesman admitted he does not have the necessary skills to run a government agency.

Veterans who need HUD will be hurt by the appointment, the release added, so the US Senate needs to reject Carson's nomination and force Trump to choose a serious candidate.

Initially, Carson ran against Trump for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, but supported Trump after dropping out of the race.

VoteVets is the largest progressive veterans group in the United States with more than 450,000 supporters.
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Red Flag

Ponerized society: Red Cross poll finds half of Americans believe torture is useful for extracting info


RT
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:47 UTC
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© Reuters
A Red Cross poll has found that about half of American respondents believe that torture is a solution for extracting information. The US was matched only by Nigeria, Israel and Palestine.

The global 'People on War' poll that surveyed 17,000 people in 16 countries has revealed that indifference to torture has grown substantially since the late '90s, especially where it concerns the five permanent UN Security Council members. By contrast, those living in war-torn countries like Afghanistan showed very little acceptance of such methods and a greater regard for international law.

According to the poll results, it appears that war crimes are now being looked at as simply a part of war - an attitude increasingly prevalent in the US, where just under half of all respondents (46 percent) support the use of torture. Only Thirty percent disagreed, with the remainder were undecided. The American shift in opinion was also by far the biggest the authors have seen: none of the other P5 members (Russia, China, France, the UK) came close in figures.

On average, one in three people in the US believed torture was "part of war."
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Black Cat

Coincidence or conscious? Swastika-looking snowflakes constructed by artist for Latvian Christmas market


RT
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 08:16 UTC
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In another controversial case of Latvia's relationship to Nazi symbolism, a large ornament eerily similar to a swastika appeared in Riga's Christmas Market, provoking critical reactions.

The scene filmed Monday at Esplanade Park showed several runes, possibly intended to represent snowflakes. But one does stop to wonder what the designer was thinking, when about 80 percent finished, he noticed one of his creations resembled the symbol associated with Nazism in the 20th century.

Some media accounts reported confusion and disappointment from passersby.


Comment: Though the swastika symbol predates Nazism by many centuries, and has held meanings other than the ideology we most commonly associate it with, it is interesting to note that Latvia has aligned itself politically and militarily with NATO.

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Book

Trump names Ben Carson as housing secretary: Carson tells positions on poverty with rags-to-riches life story

Jim Tankersley
The Washington Post
Sat, 31 Oct 2015 16:39 UTC
Ben Carson
Dr. Ben Carson
Ben Carson was born on the southwest side of this city to a mother who could not read. He spent much of his youth in what he has described as "dire poverty," but his neighbors kept their lawns trimmed, and parents called other parents if they saw kids stirring up trouble. Compared with the Boston ghetto where he lived briefly in elementary school, Carson says, it was "like Beverly Hills."

Today, the roofs have caved in on some of the houses on Carson's old street. Half the children in Southwest Detroit live in poverty. Weeds have overrun the courtyards at his old high school. Soon, workers will knock the school down, pounding to dust another cornerstone of the community that nurtured one of America's great against-the-odds personal stories.

Carson, 64, who built a world-renowned career in neurosurgery and now leads some polls in the Republican campaign for president, broke the cycle of poverty. His neighborhood slid deeper into it.

Carson's positions on economic issues, particularly combating poverty, were forged in his extraordinary rise from what is now a riverfront slum in the shadow of a long bridge to Canada. But those positions have created a tension in his run for president.

Comment: See also: Trump names Ben Carson as housing secretary to head urban renewal agenda

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Rape of 11yo girl on way to school leaves Memphis residents in shock


RT
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:42 UTC
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Parents in a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee were rattled by a report that an 11-year-old girl was snatched on her way to school, raped, and left in a ditch. Police have arrested a man who matches the description of the attacker.

The girl was walking to Geeter Middle School around 7am on Monday, when a blue SUV pulled up.

"He snatched her, put her in the truck, raped her, and then dropped her off over here," the victim's mother told local media, referring to the ditch near the intersection of Delta and Mason Roads.

The girl was battered and bruised, but is expected to be okay, the mother said.
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